Sharing some Mace Revamp ideas with everyone.

Hello, I wanted to share my take on what I consider to be an improvement for the leveling experience for any build centred around the use of hammers.

These changes benefit primarily Warriors in PoE2, who during the early levels struggle heavily with hammers due to their inability to kite bosses with keep a way mechanics such Aregane who teleports away and reapers from behind you or Mushroom Druid who teleports you into the pool of shrooms.



Here is a summary of the changes:

1)Volcanic Fissure moved all the way up to T1, becoming available to the player as soon as they kill the Miller. This is a ranged skill whose damage scales based on the melee damage nodes. The downside to this is that the range is very short and has a high % to not hit the boss if you are too far away.

2)Resonating Shield and Molten Blast were moved to T3, because they are better suited to the leveling process of the campaign. One is an easier to use Mob Clear which can be used regardless of your one handed weapon type, promoting build flexibility. I have tested this skill and was able to use it with both a wand and a scepter. Meanwhile, Molten Orb has a greater range, but worse damage on classes like Warrior.

3)Shockwave Totem and Armor Breaker got moved to T5 because these are niche skills for specific builds in the current patch. Meanwhile, Seismic Cry got moved from T11 to T9 to promote build diversity by making it more available to all classes as a form of crowd control.

4)Earthquake moved from T1 to T11 because it's another nieche skill which requires you to acquire a significant amount of resources to make it work. As a stand alone skill for Act 1 normal, this skill is very slow and requires carefull planning to maximise it's effect with a minimal ammount of resources (no shockwave totem or projectile to bait hordes of creatures to move in the skill's AoE, no Astral Projection support gem to place this skill in an advantegeous position etc)